Berita Arkib

26/07/2008 (Mongabay.com) - Commodity producers are eyeing one of the world's last relatively untouched tracts of rainforest for development, reports the Wall Street Journal.

26/07/2008 (Bernama), Miri - Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Peter Chin Fah Kui will meet his Indonesian Agriculture Minister Dr Anton Apriyantono in Jakarta next week to discuss measures to be taken concerning the current downward trend of palm oil prices.

26/07/2008 (The Star Online), Kuala Lumpur - TH Plantations Bhd (THP) is buying a 51% stake in Syarikat Sabaco Sdn Bhd, a plantation company for about RM147.468mil in its move to expand its oil palm cultivation business.

26/07/2008 (The Daily Star) - Nature has been generous in endowing palm oil with a composition that is uniquely balanced between the saturated and unsaturated fatty acids. Even when programming this higher level of saturates in the oil, nature’s consideration for optimisation was already apparent – the biology of the oil palm dictates that this saturate be in the form of palmitic acid (C16:0), the same saturated fatty acid that is most abundant in our body and throughout most of nature’s creations.

26/07/2008 (Bloomberg) - PEC Ltd., a state-run Indian trading company, called for bids to import 12,000 metric tons of palm oil to sell to the nation's poor at below market prices.

25/07/2008 (The Edge Daily), Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia’s crude palm oil (CPO) production may increase to 17 million tonnes this year from an initial forecast of 16.2 million tonnes due to improved palm oil production, Plantations Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Peter Chin said.

25/07/2008 (The News, International), Karachi - Pakistani manufacturers of edible oil are holding back the benefits of a sharp fall in international price of palm oil as consumers continue to suffer from worst inflation in decades, industry people told The News on Thursday.

24/07/2008 (Ghanaian Chronicle) - The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Unilever Ghana Limited, Charles Alexander Coffie, has disclosed that the government of Ghana loses about $9 million in revenue every year, through illegal activities of some cooking oil importers in the country.

24/07/2008 (The Edge Daily), Kuala Lumpur - Four Malaysia-based plantation companies — IOI Corp Bhd, United Plantations Bhd, Kulim (M) Bhd and Sime Darby Bhd — are likely to secure the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) certification in the next few weeks, industry sources said.

23/07/2008 (Red Orbit) - THAILAND'S PTT Chemical Public Co Ltd has bought a stake in Cognis Oleochemicals Sdn Bhd, making it the new partner for Sime Darby Plantation Sdn Bhd.

24/07/2008 (The Ghanian Times) - The Customer Development Manager of Unilever Ghana, Mr Kwaku Boateng, has called for the establishment of a palm oil control board, to oversee the affairs of palm oil in the country.

23/07/2008 (Gas2.0) - According to an article in the Jakarta Post, an official from the Indonesian government has spilled the beans on Samsung’s plans to invest up to $1.63 billion dollars in what’s sure to be a controversial acquisition of land for growing oil palms and construction of a biodiesel plant in Indonesia.